My personal experience is when I start spamd it gets up to about 90M per child within the 1st minute of running. It never gets any higher than that, at least that I have noticed.
I tried setting the variables to what you set with no improvement. I am running Perl 5.8.4 and SA 3.0.1.. I am curious to see what the memory usage is for other people on SA 3.0.1 and what versions of perl you are running. Thanks! Scott > > I've read this mail and the replies to it, and I don't understand why > you are seeing these problems. I'm running SA on an ia32 Linux box and > a SPARC Solaris box, and I see no problems with the child processes or > memory usage. > > One big difference is that I'm using perl 5.6.1 and LANG=C . It is > pretty commonly known that the socket routines in perl 5.8 have memory > leaks because of a bug in its io subsystem. > > A relevant post about this issue can be found here: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/65325 > > And a recommended workaround is to put into your environment > PERLIO=perlio before spawning spamd. You might see if you have the > latest perl from RedHat. The most recent one I see is perl-5.8.0-88.3. > > In summary, I do not see this as a problem with SA, but some specific > problem in your environment either at the OS level or at the perl level. > > Mike > > -- > /-----------------------------------------\ > | Michael Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | UNIX Systems Administrator | > | College of William and Mary | > | Phone: (757) 879-3930 | > \-----------------------------------------/ >
